NVIDIA ION vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA ION and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA ION

NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA ION

Around 5% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 84 vs 80

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	84 vs 80

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 38 vs 18
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 620 vs 571
Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 620 vs 571

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	38 vs 18
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	620 vs 571
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	620 vs 571

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA ION
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

620

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

571

620

Name	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
PassMark - G3D Mark	84	80
PassMark - G2D Mark	18	38
Geekbench - OpenCL	2440
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	571	620
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	571	620
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		0.265
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		10.49

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA ION	NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Tesla
Code name	MCP7A-ION	G98
Launch date	3 June 2008	1 June 2008
Place in performance rating	1690	1691
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$22.99
Price now		$22.99
Value for money (0-100)		5.67
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	282 million	210 million
Floating-point performance		20.8 gflops
Pipelines		8
Texture fill rate		4.32 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		256 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory clock speed		800 MHz
Memory type		DDR2